I searched wepik for "fat woman in high heels leaping while wearing tight pants and whose Coopers ligaments are at the point of failure" but nothing came back. I must be doing something wrong.
The article is terrible, but Strava is a great source of data. Before Strava you could ask those same runners how many miles they were running per week, and I bet we'd get inflated numbers - 30 or even 35. (Might have been interesting to add that as a second axis to the study - ask the runners how many miles they ran per week and compare with reality and separate by gender.) Strava did a study on Boston qualifiers a while back - easy for them to do since they can tell how fast people actually run their marathons, again without having to rely on reported data - and came to the shocking conclusion that BQers run more, rather than simply, say, relying on talent.
The article also doesn't consider how reasonable the runners' goals were. Is my achieving a soft goal -- say a sub 4:30 marathon -- really a bigger achievement than a male failing to go sub-2? I'd say no, and I received a 5 on my AP CALC exam.
I searched wepik for "fat woman in high heels leaping while wearing tight pants and whose Coopers ligaments are at the point of failure" but nothing came back. I must be doing something wrong.
The article is terrible, but Strava is a great source of data. Before Strava you could ask those same runners how many miles they were running per week, and I bet we'd get inflated numbers - 30 or even 35. (Might have been interesting to add that as a second axis to the study - ask the runners how many miles they ran per week and compare with reality and separate by gender.) Strava did a study on Boston qualifiers a while back - easy for them to do since they can tell how fast people actually run their marathons, again without having to rely on reported data - and came to the shocking conclusion that BQers run more, rather than simply, say, relying on talent.
The article also doesn't consider how reasonable the runners' goals were. Is my achieving a soft goal -- say a sub 4:30 marathon -- really a bigger achievement than a male failing to go sub-2? I'd say no, and I received a 5 on my AP CALC exam.